My village can't be like this

Chapter 599: Lively Village (I)

"Sister-in-law, Qiqi came to you to ask for this sausage."

Half a while later, everyone in front of the stall bought what they wanted and left. Then Zhang An took his son and walked up to say hello.

"No, Qiqi didn't say anything. I saw him coming over and got it for him. Your family really teaches their children well. He is so sensible at such a young age. He even said thank you when I gave him something. My big fool is five or six years old and still doesn't understand anything."

The sister-in-law used a colander to strain the potatoes and put them into the pot while talking to Zhang An with a smile.

It can be seen that there were so many people here just now that they bought all the potatoes she had just fried.

"Haha, this is what his mother taught me. Come, sister-in-law, here is the money for the sausage."

Zhang An responded with a smile, then took out money to pay for the sausages that the little guy was going to eat.

"Anzi, if you do this, your sister-in-law will be unhappy. He is not an outsider. Why should you pay for food for your nephew?"

The eldest sister-in-law ignored Zhang An, pretended to be unhappy, turned around and looked at Xiao Siqi and said with a smile.

"Qi Qi, have you finished eating? Auntie will give you another one. You are so good. You are just like your father. You can eat spicy food."

Then he took out a freshly fried sausage from the pan, put it on a bamboo skewer, sprinkled some chili powder on it, and then handed it to Xiao Siqi.

Zhang An wanted to say something else, but before he could open his mouth, the other person glared at him, so he had to shut up.

This made him laugh and cry. He originally wanted to pay the money, but who would have thought that not only did he not pay, but he got another one instead. He felt a little embarrassed.

However, at this time, some people came to buy food, and there were quite a few of them. Zhang An had to remember this and take Xiao Siqi away first to avoid blocking other people's business.

There is a deer park in the village, and there is a deer show going on there now, with many people coming to watch.

Zhang An didn't want to join the crowd, so he took his son over, took a few glances from a distance, and then left.

When they arrived at the bridge, the sightseeing boats moored at the pier had disappeared. They were all floating in the river, with only Zhang An's boat being the only one left.

Needless to say, all the ten boats bought by the village have been rented out, and the business is booming.

And there are still many people waiting at the dock, basically parents with children.

"Oh, Uncle Youcai, your business is doing very well."

Zhang An walked down the bridge with his son and found that the person in charge of selling tickets in the ticket office was Zhao Youcai, so he walked over and chatted with him for a few words.

There are few people in the village, but no one knows how the boat rental business is going, so they haven't recruited a ticket seller separately. So Zhao Youcai temporarily takes on this position part-time. Anyway, he doesn't have anything too busy recently.

There was a large notice outside the ticket office window with the price of renting a boat.

In fact, it’s just one row of words, twenty yuan for half an hour.

In fact, this thing was written by Zhang Jianwen and Zhang An. There is still half a sentence at the end. It cost thirty-five yuan for half an hour.

The villagers discussed this for several days before deciding on it. After all, the price in the park lake in the provincial capital is only 50 yuan an hour, and they were afraid that if the price was set too high, no one would care.

We were originally worried that not many people would rent a boat, so we split it up and sold one ticket every half hour.

However, this half hour is not set casually, because it takes exactly half an hour to sail downstream from the pier, turn around above the lower river bay and sail back.

Of course, if someone buys for an hour, we will give them a discount of five dollars, which is equivalent to a discount for buying more.

But everything was decided, and when the day of nutrition came, everyone was stunned.

The ticket window hasn't opened yet, but there are already many people queuing up here.

So Zhang Jianwen and his team quickly covered up the second half of the sentence and only sold tickets for half an hour.

Because there are not many boats in the village, if some people just buy a boat for a few hours, the people behind them don’t have to wait.

"That's good, but there are too many people who want to rent our ship, and we only have ten ships, so we can't supply them at all."

Although business was good, Zhao Youcai was also very annoyed because all the boats had sailed out, but there were still so many people waiting at the dock.

Every once in a while, someone would come to ask him when the boats would return. He spent ten minutes selling tickets this morning and the rest of the time explaining things to people, feeling somewhat discouraged.

"Xiao Anzi, it's a pity to leave your boat unused. How about I rent it out for you?"

Although one more ship would not make much difference, Zhao Youcai thought that every extra ship was better than leaving it alone.

"How about you, Uncle Cai, go ask my uncle. If he agrees, I have no objection."

Zhang An neither agreed nor refused. This kind of thing was the same as using a public bus for private purposes or a private bus for public purposes. It wouldn't matter if it happened once or twice, but problems would arise if it happened too often.

Besides, if something happens to the people on the ship, who will be responsible for it?

He is a person who fears trouble, so the boat is just parked there. He doesn't expect to make any money from it anyway.

"Forget it then. If Lao Zhang wanted to agree, he would have come to you long ago."

Zhao Youcai curled his lips and said, it is obvious that what Zhang An could think of, Zhang Jianwen also thought of.

"Here we come, we're back, it's our turn this time."

While the two were chatting, there was a commotion from the crowd on the dock.

Zhang An turned around and saw that two boats had already returned from the river.

At this time, Zhao Youcai glanced at the record book on the table, and then shouted loudly: "Number 21, number 22, come over and hand in the tickets and get ready."

When the people at the dock heard this, two of them immediately walked to the window, took out the tickets and handed them to Zhao Youcai.

"Okay, go wait at the port. If you have children with you, be careful when you get on the boat and don't jump around on the boat to avoid safety issues."

Zhao Youcai took the ticket and checked it briefly. After finding no problem, he put it in the drawer and said to the person who handed over the ticket.

Seeing him like this, Zhang An thought that he must have spent a lot of time on this in the past, otherwise he wouldn't be so professional.

"OK, thanks."

After thanking Zhao Youcai, the other party called out his family and went to the boat entrance to wait.

Seeing the boats on the river returning one after another, Zhao Youcai began to busy himself with ticket checking, collecting and selling tickets. Zhang An stopped chatting with him. After all, it was a job to collect money, so he wanted to avoid making mistakes later.

"Zhang An, you are here, just come over and take the oil."

Just when Zhang An was about to go to the lower reaches of the river to take a look, someone suddenly shouted at him on the bridge.

Looking back, they found that it was Ding Yi who came. This guy was holding their son Ding Zijie in one hand and carrying an oil barrel in the other.

"When did you come back? I thought you guys would be very busy these days."

Zhang An walked over and took the oil barrel from Ding Yi's hand. It didn't shake, so it must be full. It was quite heavy, no wonder Ding Yi looked a little hungry when he was carrying it. Zhang An asked Ding Yi to bring this barrel of oil back to add to the boat. Their boat had only been filled with oil once, when the fat man first brought it over, and filled it up with a full box.

During this period, Zhang An took his son up there for a drift from time to time, and the fuel tank had already begun to run low.

"I came back this morning after I finished explaining everything. We've recruited enough people during this period, and it's time for us to take a break and spend some time with the kids. We can't be so busy every day. Otherwise, what if Ding Zijie grows up in two years and doesn't recognize me and his mother?"

Ding Yi let out a long sigh and said, it was obvious that he had just walked over from the other side carrying a bucket of oil, and he was very tired.

Ding Zijie and Xiao Siqi have always gotten along well with each other. As soon as they met, they would hold hands and play together.

Then Zhang An took out the key, opened the fuel tank cap, and poured the oil that Ding Yigang brought into it.

The fuel tank of Zhang An's boat is very large. After pouring out a barrel of oil, it is only half full. However, it is enough for a while. After all, it is not required to be operated every day.

"Dad, drive the boat."

The two little guys held onto the boat's handles and wouldn't let go. Little Siqi even shouted at Zhang An.

"Dad, drive the boat."

Ding Zijie, who was standing next to him, heard his friend speak and started talking too.

But what he said was not wrong. Zhang An was his father, so if we round it off, he could be considered his father.

"Okay, I'll take you for a walk."

Seeing his son said so, Zhang An had no heart to refuse, and immediately carried the two little ones onto the boat.

"Hey hey hey young man, didn't the ticket seller inside say that this boat can't sail? What are you doing on board?"

Just as Zhang An carried the two little ones onto the boat, an old lady on the dock ran over, pulled Zhang An's sleeve and asked.

Just now, their family queued up late and had to wait, but when they saw that all the boats had sailed away and only one was left, they went to ask Zhao Youcai, and there were quite a lot of people asking.

Zhao Youcai explained for a long time but they still didn't understand, so he finally just said that the boat couldn't sail, and then he shut them up.

"Auntie, this boat belongs to me, not the village. Of course they can't drive it."

Zhang An knew what was going on without thinking. After sending the man away with just a few words, he started the boat and floated on the river with the two little guys.

But nowadays we can no longer drive as freely as we used to.

In the past, there was only Zhang An’s family’s boat in the river, but now it is different, there are ten more boats in the river.

Although the river is very wide, if you are not careful, you will still collide with other ships.

This is also the reason why after the village bought the boat, they had to train so many crew members because they were worried about this issue.

After a while, many people on the shore suddenly pointed at Zhang An and his boat and shouted, making Zhang An think that something had gone wrong.

I stuck my head out to take a look and found that it was this guy named Huatou who had flown in at some point and was now perched on the ceiling. No wonder he had attracted everyone's attention.

"Hey~~~~"

Zhang An blew a whistle, and Huatou quickly flew from the ceiling to the boat and landed steadily on Zhang An's shoulder.

"Hey Zhang An, how come your flower head has grown so much? I remember it wasn't this big before."

Looking at Huatou, who was standing on Zhang An's shoulder and was taller than Zhang An's head, Ding Yi said with some confusion.

Although he hadn't seen Huatou for a long time, he was very sure that Huatou had really grown a size.

"Maybe he has no worries about food and drink at home, so he is fat and white."

Zhang An did not give a direct answer, adhering to the principle of reading and replying randomly.

Because he knew in his heart that Huatou had indeed grown a lot, and its current size was much larger than that of a normal goshawk.

But these are all functions of the space spring water, and it doesn't grow all at once, but grows slowly, little by little, over several years.

Huatou was originally looking into the distance with a very arrogant look, but when he heard his owner say that he had gained weight, he flapped his wings slightly to express his dissatisfaction.

"Okay, okay, I'm not fat, not fat."

Looking at the irritable Huatou, Zhang An comforted him lovingly.

Although Huatou flapped his left wing, the amplitude was not too large and could not touch him anywhere.

But the wings are so big that when they flap, they make the hair into a mess.

Brothers Xiao Siqi and Ding Zijie were staring at Huatou at the moment, but they didn't dare to reach out.

Little Siqi is a lawless little bully at home who can call the wind and rain. Even the bully Xiaohu in the family has to bow down to him and let him do whatever he wants when he sees him.

But even so, he, who was used to being domineering at home, did not dare to treat Huatou like that.

Because this guy Huatou not only looks aloof, but also ferocious. Unlike other animals in the house, he doesn't give the little guy any face at all.

In the past, little Siqi, with his fearless nature, had tried to grab Huatou twice, but was beaten back each time.

As a result, until now, the little guy no longer dares to offend this evil god.

Huatou stayed in the boat for a while, and suddenly flew out like a sharp arrow.

When it touched the water, the claws that were originally hidden in the feathers on its abdomen quickly stretched out and sank into the water.

When he came out of the water again, Huatou had caught a big fish in his claws, which looked to be about five fingers wide.

This flying hunting speed was not only witnessed by Zhang An and his companions, but also by many people on other boats and even on the shore, who were now marveling and cheering for Huatou.

After catching the food, Huatou did not return to the boat, but flew back home.

"Dad, let's go."

The two little guys were just thinking about what they wanted to do. They had been clamoring to take a boat ride, but after drifting back and forth twice, they lost interest and clamored to get off the boat and go ashore.

Although Ding Zijie is considered an older brother, little Siqi has always been the leader.

Seeing Xiao Siqi shouting that he wanted to get off the boat, he also started to act weird.

"Alright, be quiet. We'll be getting off the boat soon. You two really don't know how to appreciate your blessings. Look at the many children on the shore who want to get on and have to line up, and you're still being picky."

The two little guys had very loud voices, and it only took a short while for Zhang An to get a headache from the noise.

In the end, we could only follow their wishes and sail the boat towards the dock.

(End of this chapter)